Here's a look at many players involved in the high school tennis playoffs from around the Peninsula. (SONNY DEARTH/DAILY PRESS)

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Boys:

Group 5A:

Menchville continued its domination of Hampton Roads opponents Friday by sweeping Great Bridge 5-0 in the PenSouth Conference tournament final at Huntington Park.

The Monarchs, who haven't lost to an opponent from the 757 area code since the 2012 Eastern Regional, improved to 17-0 behind straight-sets victories from their top five: Matt Strehle, Austen Delnicki, Brandon Pingley, Jordan Moore and Brandon Mueller.

Moore's 6-4, 6-4 victory over Parker Layden, the closest of those five matches, provided the clincher on line 4.

"It was pretty close," Menchville coach Steve Sipe said. "They (the Wildcats) were up on 3 and 4 and 6, but the guys came back."

Pingley, who trailed in the first set, won 6-4, 6-2 against Tony Nguyen at 3. Ryan Ziemann, Menchville's No. 6, was trailing a close match against Nick Medlin when they stopped as the Monarchs accumulated five points.

"It looked like it could go to doubles (at 4-2 or 3-3), and I wasn't looking forward to that because they (Great Bridge) had doubles practice yesterday," Sipe said. "It was a pretty good team."

The PenSouth individual tournament, in which Strehle is seeded No. 1 in singles and Strehle and Delnicki are seeded second in doubles, begins Tuesday at Huntington Park. Late next week, the Monarchs will play in a Group 5A South Regional quarterfinal against Princess Anne, the team Menchville beat last season to earn a state tournament berth.

Great Bridge will go to Norfolk to play the Atlantic Conference 9 champion, Maury. The Wildcats got that doubles practice Sipe referenced by winning two of three doubles matches against Hickory to beat the Hawks 5-4 in Thursday's semifinal.

After Menchville parents took photos of the team with its conference trophy, Sipe got to bring out his pride and joy instead of watching pressure-packed doubles. The coach, grinning, brought out his 4-year-old, Brandon, to smack a few double-handed forehands and backhands -- and the little kid already hits as hard and with as much control as some high school players.

"I was gonna play him, but I don't want to lose to a 4-year-old," one of the Monarchs' fathers said.

Group 4A:

In the Conference 19 doubles tournament at Jamestown, the Eagles' Derrick Neilson and Grayson DeBerry won the 12-tandem bracket in one day.

In a semifinal, they rolled past Grafton's Nir Diskin and Zeke Tal 6-0, 6-1 to advance to South Regional play. Then the Eagles' top tandem defeated Evan Pfab and Nick Furbee of Powhatan in the final by rallying for a 4-6, 6-2, 6-4 triumph.

Alvarez and Tersigni then overcame Lafayette's Libby Bland and Hannah Trueblood 7-5, 6-2 for the doubles crown. Both tandems had qualified for the regional by reaching the final.

Group 4A:

Host Jamestown's tandem of Anna Walter and Mairin Shea took the crown in the Conference 19 doubles tournament.

Walter and Shea rolled to a 6-1, 6-2 win against Smithfield in their quarterfinal match, then earned a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2 semifinal win against Sophia Lin and Kayla Jefferson, the Grafton girls who had beaten them in the conference team final Monday.

With that momentum, Walter and Shea then defeated Powhatan's Olivia Chadwick and Cecilia Fleming 6-2, 6-2 for the conference championship. That was similar to the conference singles tournament, in which Walter was the champ and Chadwick the runner-up.

Chadwick and Fleming had beaten the Eagles' Katie Hunt and Emily Gray 6-1, 6-1 in a semifinal.